Daniel Bowen
@danielbowen.au
Transport blogger / public transport advocate / campaigner and spokesperson for @ptua.org.au / professional geek. Opinions are all mine.
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia
Blog: Old photos from 2015, including this abomination of all-over-advertising.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Blog: Old photos from 2015, including this abomination of all-over-advertising.
danielbowen.com/2025...
danielbowen.com/2025...
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Seasons greetings! May your public transport be frequent, fast, uncrowded, on time, affordable, convenient, and accessible to all! 🚉🚌🚋🎄
December 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Seasons greetings! May your public transport be frequent, fast, uncrowded, on time, affordable, convenient, and accessible to all! 🚉🚌🚋🎄
Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi has hit out at the NSW Labor government over its new gun laws, saying it means he "would no longer be able to compete in all my Olympic events"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
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As this Age Explainer article details, all cities have traffic congestion. But better public transport (and walking and cycling) helps people avoid it.
Read more: archive.md/Brgk4
Read more: archive.md/Brgk4
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As this Age Explainer article details, all cities have traffic congestion. But better public transport (and walking and cycling) helps people avoid it.
Read more: archive.md/Brgk4
Read more: archive.md/Brgk4
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🚆Happy anniversary to the VLocity trains - the first one went into service twenty years ago today, 22nd December 2025. They've been good, but the design dates back to the 1990s... isn't it time for a newer, improved train design for regional #Victoria?
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December 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🚆Happy anniversary to the VLocity trains - the first one went into service twenty years ago today, 22nd December 2025. They've been good, but the design dates back to the 1990s... isn't it time for a newer, improved train design for regional #Victoria?
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Now I don't feel so bad about losing track of things in my house.
Airplane ‘lost’ for 13 years turns up in airport parking bay
The Boeing 737 sat untouched at Kolkata airport for 13 years – quietly accumulating parking fees
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Now I don't feel so bad about losing track of things in my house.
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2025 is the first year ever that Australia has recorded more pedestrian fatalities than vehicle passenger fatalities. Super-sized vehicles seemingly doing a great job at protecting their occupants at the expense of everyone else. www.drive.com.au/news/pedestr...
December 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
2025 is the first year ever that Australia has recorded more pedestrian fatalities than vehicle passenger fatalities. Super-sized vehicles seemingly doing a great job at protecting their occupants at the expense of everyone else. www.drive.com.au/news/pedestr...
From my travel blog: About an hour after the Louvre heist happened, we were heading from Paris to Lyon on a fast train - so fast it made cars on the motorway look like they were standing still.
Read more: danielbowen.com/2025/10/19/p...
Read more: danielbowen.com/2025/10/19/p...
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
From my travel blog: About an hour after the Louvre heist happened, we were heading from Paris to Lyon on a fast train - so fast it made cars on the motorway look like they were standing still.
Read more: danielbowen.com/2025/10/19/p...
Read more: danielbowen.com/2025/10/19/p...
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Oops - missed two of the photos.
More bus services on weekends would cut waiting times, relieve crowding, and get more people out of their cars.
More bus services on weekends would cut waiting times, relieve crowding, and get more people out of their cars.
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Oops - missed two of the photos.
More bus services on weekends would cut waiting times, relieve crowding, and get more people out of their cars.
More bus services on weekends would cut waiting times, relieve crowding, and get more people out of their cars.
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Weekend - busiest shopping days - and plenty of people want to travel - but many buses are half as frequent as on weekdays, or not even running at all.😠
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Weekend - busiest shopping days - and plenty of people want to travel - but many buses are half as frequent as on weekdays, or not even running at all.😠
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These proposals from Infrastructure Victoria to extend tram lines make a lot of sense. They'd make Melbourne's trams more useful for more people by better connecting to railway stations and other suburban destinations.
How about it, Vic govt?
How about it, Vic govt?
December 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
These proposals from Infrastructure Victoria to extend tram lines make a lot of sense. They'd make Melbourne's trams more useful for more people by better connecting to railway stations and other suburban destinations.
How about it, Vic govt?
How about it, Vic govt?
2026 public transport fares for #Melbourne and #Victoria quietly published yesterday. Two hour Z1&2 fare up from $5.50 to $5.70. Daily cap up from $11.00 to $11.40.
Obviously some freebies this summer on weekends, and the new free ($5 once-off cost) Youth Myki from 1st Jan. transport.vic.gov.au...
Obviously some freebies this summer on weekends, and the new free ($5 once-off cost) Youth Myki from 1st Jan. transport.vic.gov.au...
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
2026 public transport fares for #Melbourne and #Victoria quietly published yesterday. Two hour Z1&2 fare up from $5.50 to $5.70. Daily cap up from $11.00 to $11.40.
Obviously some freebies this summer on weekends, and the new free ($5 once-off cost) Youth Myki from 1st Jan. transport.vic.gov.au...
Obviously some freebies this summer on weekends, and the new free ($5 once-off cost) Youth Myki from 1st Jan. transport.vic.gov.au...
A small win recently - after decades of inaction, they finally put a sign up so people know the Campbell Arcade is also a shortcut to Flinders Street Station. danielbowen.com/2025... #Melbourne
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A small win recently - after decades of inaction, they finally put a sign up so people know the Campbell Arcade is also a shortcut to Flinders Street Station. danielbowen.com/2025... #Melbourne
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Tallawong is the perfect case study on how park-and-rides can never scale up to meet the capacity of a metro line but will consume the prime land around the station trying to do so.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The Sydney metro station where there are 2.5 cars for every parking space
A review into commuter car parking at one of Sydney’s busiest metro stations has painted a grim picture of the daily parking ordeal – and demand is showing no signs of slowing.
www.smh.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Tallawong is the perfect case study on how park-and-rides can never scale up to meet the capacity of a metro line but will consume the prime land around the station trying to do so.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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It is just so weird that anyone would dismiss the importance of speed. City councils convulse over driver travel times but somehow your time doesn't matter if you're on transit?
Absolutely fantastic piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the Finch light rail and why dismissing speed as some have done is a mistake.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Speed matters
Of time, life and space. Or why transit speed matters.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It is just so weird that anyone would dismiss the importance of speed. City councils convulse over driver travel times but somehow your time doesn't matter if you're on transit?
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Wow, this website by @davidshoebridge.bsky.social is confronting. 500+ guns in my suburb, and one single resident alone has 34 guns, wtf!!
Have a look at yours: www.toomanyguns.org
Have a look at yours: www.toomanyguns.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Wow, this website by @davidshoebridge.bsky.social is confronting. 500+ guns in my suburb, and one single resident alone has 34 guns, wtf!!
Have a look at yours: www.toomanyguns.org
Have a look at yours: www.toomanyguns.org
“All your planned disruptions in one place” - my plan is to find out where this one place is, then try to avoid it.
#Melbourne #PublicTransport
#Melbourne #PublicTransport
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“All your planned disruptions in one place” - my plan is to find out where this one place is, then try to avoid it.
#Melbourne #PublicTransport
#Melbourne #PublicTransport
In my Europe holiday blog I'm up to the day we went to the Palace of Versailles... but being me there's also a lot about trains - this RER train footrest seems like a good idea!
Read here: danielbowen.com/2025...
Read here: danielbowen.com/2025...
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
In my Europe holiday blog I'm up to the day we went to the Palace of Versailles... but being me there's also a lot about trains - this RER train footrest seems like a good idea!
Read here: danielbowen.com/2025...
Read here: danielbowen.com/2025...
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"Denver transportation officials said an anti-car message that was displayed on traffic signs in Denver on Friday was the result of a hack. One sign, photographed by The Denver Gazette on Friday evening at E. Colfax Ave & Lincoln St near the Colorado Capitol, shared the message 'Cars ruin cities.'"
‘Cars ruin cities’ signs in Denver were hacked, officials say
Denver transportation officials said an anti-car message that was displayed on traffic signs in Denver on Friday was the result of a hack. One sign, photographed by The Denver Gazette on Friday evenin...
www.denvergazette.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Denver transportation officials said an anti-car message that was displayed on traffic signs in Denver on Friday was the result of a hack. One sign, photographed by The Denver Gazette on Friday evening at E. Colfax Ave & Lincoln St near the Colorado Capitol, shared the message 'Cars ruin cities.'"
This is just awful.
Live: Multiple fatalities after shooting at Bondi Beach
Police say there have been multiple fatalities following a shooting near a Jewish gathering at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is just awful.
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Sunday morning trains in #Melbourne are the least frequent in Australia. Long waiting times mean connections are difficult and make public transport less attractive than driving. More trains = less traffic.
December 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Sunday morning trains in #Melbourne are the least frequent in Australia. Long waiting times mean connections are difficult and make public transport less attractive than driving. More trains = less traffic.
New zebra crossing just dropped.
(At least, I hadn’t noticed it before.) Collins St near Swanston St, #Melbourne 🦓👍
(At least, I hadn’t noticed it before.) Collins St near Swanston St, #Melbourne 🦓👍
December 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
New zebra crossing just dropped.
(At least, I hadn’t noticed it before.) Collins St near Swanston St, #Melbourne 🦓👍
(At least, I hadn’t noticed it before.) Collins St near Swanston St, #Melbourne 🦓👍